Brooch or the like.



0. G. ARMSTRONG; BROOGH OR THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED DEO.12, 1907. I

' Patented May 4, 1909.

form Sl1OWl11 a hin e member secured in UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLIFFORD G. ARMSTRONG, OF SANDWICH, MASSACHUSETTS. BROOCH OR THE LIKE.

No. 920,517. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 12, 1907.

Patented May 4, 1909. Serial No. 406,168.

To all whom it may concern: member of a bar pin which may have any de- Be it known that I, CLIFFORD G. ARM- I sign or configuration desired, I) a hinge mem- STRONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sandwich, in the county of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts, have 7 end and the 0pinvented a new and useful Improvement in I positely-disposed raised lips 8 8 at the edges Brooches or the Like, of which the following of the cavities, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. is a specification. These cavities which may be square, rectan- This invention has reference to an imgular or any shape other than round, are provement in brooches or pins and more parformed in the back of the body by suitable ticularly to an improvement in means for dies, which force the metal out of the cavities securing pin tongue oints and catches to the and form the raised lips 8 8 which may be on backs of bar pins, brooches or similar articles the ends or sides of the cavities. The hinge of jewelry. member 6 and catch member d are each con- The object of my invention is to improve the construction of bar pins, brooches or similar articles of jewelry, whereby the pin tongue joints and catches are more permat ian tne depth of the cavities as shown in nently and rigidly secured to the backs of 1g. 4 The pin tonguecis pivotally secured the bar pins or brooches than has heretofore at one end to the hinge member I), as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The hinge member I) of the pin ton ue 0 and the catch member (Z are permanent ly and rigidly secured to the body a. by placing the heads 10 of ber Z) and the catch member (Z in the cavities 7 7 and, by the use of dies or suitable tools, swaging the lips 8 8 over the heads 10 10 flush with the surface of the back of the body a, as shown in Fig. 5, thereby leaving a smooth finished surface on the back of the pin or brooch.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters atent:

In a brooch, a metal body member having a cavity therein, and a catch member having a shank with an enlarged head on said shank, the under face of said head seating on the wall formed by the bottom of said cavity, and a pair of lips integral with said body and composed of the metal displaced by the formation of said cavity, said lips seating on the top face of said head.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CLIFFORD G. ARMSTRONG.

Witnesses ADA E. HAGERTY, J. A. MILLER.

been done, without solder.

My invention consists in the peculiar novel construction of securing pin tongue joints and catches to the backs of bar pins, brooches or similar articles of jewelry, without solder, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter and claimed. I

Figure 1 is a back View of a blank forming the body of a bar pin or brooch. Fig. 2 is j and the hinge mema back view raised lips formed on the back of the same by suitable dies. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional View through the body member, showing the cavities and raised lips. Fig. 4 is a sectional vie. similar to Fig. 3, showing I the hinge member of the pin tongue and the catch in the cavities in position to be per- I nianently secured in the same. Fig. 5 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 4, showing! the hinge member of the pin tongue and the catch permanently and rigidly secured in the cavities of the body by swaging the end lips over and into the with the surface of the back,

cavities flush and Fig. 6 1s a transverse sectional view of a modified the cavity by swaging the the sides.

In the drawings, a indicates the solid body lips over from 

